Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd May 2008 20:54 UTC
More often than not, the question arises on OSNews why certain projects or pieces of abandonware aren't released as open source software. Supposedly, this would speed up development, facilitate the growth of a community, all that jazz associated with open source development. Here are four projects I'd like to see released under a MIT license.
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RE[3]: Well... there's more
by Blackwizard on Sun 25th May 2008 15:15
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I agree. Most of all I would like open-source VMS and I would place OS/2 to the second place. Why? Because I am already fed up with UNIX variants. What special differences between BSD, Solaris, Linux? You'll need a microscope to find them. And also a do not like UNIX at all (don't know, why).
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2006-08-26
Actually VMS has been ported to Alpha and is now running on Itanium. (It's called OpenVMS). The hardware is a non-issue, especially after the Alpha port around 6.1/6.2. There is very little about the Alpha hardware of 15 years ago that isn't as good or better in todays x86 hardware. It could easily be ported to x86-64 (as it has now been already ported to 2 64 bit architectures).
Currently, the last VAX version of OpenVMS is 7.2 and the current Alpha/Itanium version is 8.3